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This video provides a brief overview of the block-level comments feature that allows your users to add and manage comments contextually.

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• version 1.4
• Feedback

This video presents an overview of the benefits of the Oxygen Feedback commenting platform that provides a simple and efficient way for your community to interact and offer feedback.

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• version 1.2
• Feedback

• FeedBack

This video provides a brief overview of the Oxygen Styles Basket, a web-based visual tool that helps you customize the look and style of your PDF or WebHelp output.

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• Styles
• Basket

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• version 23

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• version 22

• Oxygen
• version 22

• Oxygen
• version 22

This video presents an overview of the visual editing support for JSON documents in Oxygen.

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• author

• JSON Tools
• JSON Validation
• JSON Schema
• JSON

This video presents the file comparison support that is integrated in the Eclipse distribution of Oxygen XML Editor.

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A framework refers to a package that contains resources and configuration information to provide ready-to-use support for an XML vocabulary or document type.

Starting recently, a framework can be created using a special XML descriptor file, either from scratch or by extending an existing built-in framework (such as DITA or DocBook) and then making modifications to it. During this event, we will take an extensive look at this specific method by covering topics, such as:

• What benefits this new approach brings when compared with creating a framework in GUI.
• Exploring various use cases and implement them though the script.
• How to extend existing built-in or custom frameworks.
• What deployment options are available

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We all like custom products and most of the time we invest extra time and energy into customizing our tools to better fit our specific needs and preferences.

In this fourth episode of our Working with DITA in Oxygen series, we will explore several ways of customizing the DITA editing experience according to your desires. This webinar will cover the customization of:

• Author actions - edit existing actions, remove actions or add new ones. Add actions to the main toolbar, the contextual menu, or the content completion window.
• The Author-mode rendering - tailor the visuals of the editing experience using CSS and add in-place actions directly in the Author page.
• Document validation - create new validation rules and provide quick fixes using Schematron.
• The content-completion assistant - automatically insert or reject elements, attributes, and values.
• New document templates - add prefixes or suffixes to the names of your new documents, customize the template icons, mark templates as popular

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We all know that the road to becoming advanced in a specific subject is a long one. But it doesn’t need to be difficult!

Your journey into defining the look and format of your documents with the use of CSS continues with another extensive tutorial, this time dedicated to the global page layout. This means that during this event, you will learn how to create and control PDF pages directly from CSS. To achieve this ability, we will focus on the following subjects:

• @page CSS at-rule
• Page-margin boxes
• Page-selectors (default, front-page, etc.)
• Page orientation
• Column-count
• Page-breaks
• Odd and even pages

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Spring arrived with a fresh new version for the Oxygen XML suite of products!

Version 23.1 of the industry-leading XML editing suite of products, Oxygen XML Editor, Author, Developer, Web Author, WebHelp, PDF Chemistry, and Oxygen Publishing Engine was released along with version 1.4 of the Oxygen Feedback comment management platform, and version 4.0 of the Oxygen Content Fusion collaboration platform.

To see how this release builds upon the always expanding suite of our products, we invite you to join us for an overview and discussion that will allow you to engage with the creative people behind Oxygen. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from features like:

• Concurrent editing and reviewing in Oxygen Content Fusion for streamlining your team's collaboration process.
• The ability to ignore validation problems using Quick Fix actions to filter errors and warnings wherever they are presented.
• The new Block-Level Comments functionality in Oxygen Feedback allows your users to add and manage comments contextually at a specific location within the WebHelp page.
• Oxygen Styles Basket, the free web-based visual tool that helps you fine-tune the CSS file that is used to customize PDF or WebHelp output by picking and mixing aspects from galleries.

The panel will bring together George Bina, Alexandru Jitianu, Octavian Nadolu, Cristi Talau, Alin Balasa, and Julien Lacour.

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If you watched our previous webinar on CSS customization and you want to continue your journey into defining the look and format of your documents, here is the second part!

In this webinar, you will learn some more advanced CSS properties and you will apply them on more complex elements:

• CSS combinators
• ::before and ::after pseudo elements
• Lists (ordered and unordered)
• Tables with their caption, header, and footer
• Images (resolution, size, url)

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If becoming advanced in profiling and reusing DITA content is one of your new year's resolutions, then you're in luck! In this third webinar about working with DITA in Oxygen, we will help you achieve just that.

This webinar will cover more advanced DITA concepts, such as:

• Conref ranges - easily create content references to ranges of adjacent (sibling) elements.
• Conref push - an alternate way of creating content references, by injecting element values from the source element into a topic where it is to be re-used.
• Subject scheme maps - create custom controlled values and manage metadata attribute values for an organization or a project without having to write a DITA specialization.
• Profiling attribute groups - used to support situations where an attribute applies to multiple specialized subcategories.
• Key scopes - specify different sets of key definitions for different map branches.
• Branch filtering - set filtering conditions for specific branches of a map.

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Anyone can contribute to the technical documentation with the proper collaboration tools!

Content Fusion is a platform for all, not just for technical writers. You will see how it can positively impact each person involved in the technical documentation process:

• technical writers have full control over the content, they are the gate keepers of the documentation source.
• subject matter experts can create and push documentation drafts to technical writers
• users can propose changes just by following a link in the published output

Along with the presented use-cases, this session will highlight also DITA-specific features as well as some of the new additions to Content Fusion 4, in particular the concurrent editing support, allowing unrestricted access to edited files.

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You want to publish your DITA books and maps in PDF but you are struggling with the process? Be assured that we understand how hard it is to be a novice.

In this webinar, we will teach you how to customize your PDF publications using CSS and make them compliant with all your company documents.

At the end of this crash-course, you will be able to:

• Define specific pages (frontmatter/backmatter, chapters, indexes, etc.)
• Set page sizes and page margins
• Fix content in headers/footers
• Create a cover page with little to no effort
• Add metadata into the final PDF

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DITA content can be published to modern WebHelp Responsive online help format based on HTML5 featuring indexing and search, breadcrumb navigation, table of contents, responsive adaptive layout, and accessible content.

In this webinar, we will take an in-depth look at the WebHelp Responsive output and at the process that allows you to update content continuously by embedding a commenting component to collect your customers’ feedback.

Some of the topics covered in this webinar will include:

• How to publish DITA content to WebHelp Responsive output (pages and layout components, search engine, and publishing template).
• Customizing the output using a Publishing Templates package.
• How to embed the Oxygen Feedback Comments Component to collect customers’ feedback.
• Updating DITA topics integrating community feedback using the Oxygen Feedback Plugin.

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Schematron and Schematron QuickFix (SQF) languages can be used to improve efficiency and quality when editing DITA documents. With their use, you can define actions that will add complex structures in your documents (missing table cells, list conversions, IDs and more) and state integrity requirements in order to help you add content more easily and without making mistakes.

This indispensable webinar will be your step-by-step guide to get started as soon as possible with Schematron and Schematron Quick Fixes. Go over topics, such as:

• Creating business rules with Schematron to avoid the common issues when editing documents.
• Defining SQF actions to correct the Schematron imposed rules.
• Configuring and applying specific Schematron rules on DITA projects.

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Version 23.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products was recently released, boasting the most substantial and comprehensive set of new features, productivity enhancements, and customization possibilities in the history of the most powerful XML authoring and development tool available on the market.

To introduce you to the newly implemented and game-changing features of Oxygen 23, we invite you to join us for an overview and discussion that will allow you to engage with the amazing people that envisioned and developed our latest release. Find out first-hand how you can benefit from features like:

• Concurrent editing in Web Author for unrestricted collaboration.
• Opening DITA maps in the Author visual editing mode with the content from all referenced topics expanded and editable.
• The possibility to define or customize how Oxygen supports an XML language using a framework script.
• Updates to JSON schema support and editing JSON documents visually in Author mode.
• The benefits of integrating the Oxygen WebHelp with the Oxygen Feedback platform.
• And so much more.

The panel will bring together George Bina, Radu Coravu, Octavian Nadolu, and Cristi Talau.

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As you might know, continuous integration (CI) can be efficiently used to run automated scripts to validate changes as soon as they are saved to a remote repository.

To make things easier for you, we will introduce you to Oxygen XML Scripting, a bundle of command line tools that can be executed inside these continuous integration and deployment pipelines. This way, you can make sure that your project is valid and ready to be deployed at any time!

During this event, we will go over topics, such as:

• DITA validation and checking for completeness - a tool that checks DITA maps and topics to see if they are valid and if all of the relationships between them are working.
• Translation Package Builder - a tool for detecting changes, sending them to translation, and applying the translated files.
• Examples on how to integrate these command line tools into integration servers, like Github Actions or Netlify.

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This webinar will present the features of the new Oxygen Feedback comment management platform and showcase its use in conjunction with Oxygen XML Editor to continuously improve your online documentation based on your community feedback.

Some of the topics covered in this webinar include:

• Integrating Oxygen Feedback in your online documentation
• Receiving feedback from your end users (posting comments)
• Comments moderation
• Site users roles
• Site community members management (promote / demote users)
• Site statistics
• Subscriptions model
• Oxygen integration - accessing the comments stream directly in Oxygen

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Have you been looking for a solution that offers support for transforming your DITA content into PDF and WebHelp output?

Look no further! In this webinar, you will be introduced to the Oxygen Publishing Engine – a bundle that contains a DITA Open Toolkit distribution with Oxygen publishing plugins already integrated.

This event will represent a crash-course for you to learn what the Oxygen Publishing Engine is by showing you how to install it, configure it in a Continuous Integration system, and then customize the output.

We will also show its components, various workflows, and you will also get the chance to see how to transform a DITA map document by learning how to:

• Use the “DITA Map PDF – based on HTML5 & CSS” transformation on an integration server using a publishing template for customizing the output.
• Create a custom CSS stylesheet and use it in your transformation to get that extra level of customization for your specific needs.
• Debug the CSS inside both a web browser and Oxygen to see how to choose the correct selectors and properties used for further styling your content.

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As a company grows, so does the need for standardized procedures, and when new people enter the company, they often need to be trained to follow existing procedures.

Web Author comes in handy here, allowing you to build guided procedures where new employees don't require additional training or validation.

During this webinar, you will learn various ways that Web Author can be used to enhance your productivity:

• Guiding new writers has never been this easy. With the help of Schematron Quick Fixes or easy-to-configure contextual actions, users can just follow the on-screen instructions.
• Creating forms and sharing them with other users, with the possibility of automated processing.
• Using Web Author to keep track of a standardized procedures (e.g. release notes) with the possibility of filtering out the completed tasks and only focusing on the ongoing ones.
• Document collaboration with real-time co-authoring. Instead of having read-only access to a document, now you can work alongside other users.

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Learn how to process XML documents with a combination of XSLT, the most powerful language designed to process XML documents, and Oxygen, the tool that is most suited for this job!

Whether you are a novice or you have been using Oxygen for years, this webinar will introduce you to a great easy-to-use workflow, as well as many hidden features that you may not have been aware of.

During this webinar, we will also show you how to resolve a variety of problems and how Oxygen can help you accomplish those tasks by introducing you to:

• XSLT editing features, such as the Content Completion Assistant that makes XSLT editing easy and intuitive.
• XSLT validation and how to use Oxygen’s validation abilities with the support of multiple XSLT processors and automatic validation to keep your XSLT document valid at all times.
• XSLT transformations and how to create a simple XSLT transformation scenario and apply it to XML documents.
• XPath Content Completion Assistant that shows the proposed list of XPath functions in the current context, documented with information from the W3C specifications.

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Want to make your DITA authoring experience even better?

This is the second of a series of webinars geared towards helping you to get the most out of your overall DITA experience with the help of Oxygen. This particular webinar will cover some of the most important concepts of DITA: profiling and content references. Learn the benefits of knowing how to reuse and profile content in your documents, and how easy it is to do this in Oxygen.

In this webinar, you will learn the following:

• How to filter content in the published output using profiling attributes. This allows you to obtain various outputs from the same documentation source
• How to combine more profiling attributes in condition sets.
• How to apply DITAVAL filters in Oxygen.
• Various strategies and best practices for reusing DITA content in Oxygen.

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Do you want to have an improved editing experience? A great way to do this is by learning how to create your own custom Author mode actions.

Custom actions are very easy to create, as they are based on nothing more than a configuration file and ready-to-use built-in operations. Throughout this webinar, you will learn how to implement them and you will see various use cases where they can be used.

At the end, we hope that you will be full of great ideas on how to improve your overall editing experience by learning how to:

• Embed author actions inside a document. This will allow you to present only the relevant actions in a specific context, thus improving the editing experience for novice users.
• Write actions that make use of XLST, XQuery, or JavaScript to edit a document.
• Store the actions to external files so that they can be easily shared between frameworks.

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Due to the increasing popularity of using CSS as the customization layer for the DITA to PDF transformation, Oxygen provides a DITA-OT plugin and an engine that generates PDF using CSS called Oxygen PDF Chemistry, making the DITA PDF customization a lot easier, and immediately available to all Oxygen XML Editor/Author users.

As the publishing is triggered by scripts or on integration servers, we also provide the possibility to run the same transformation pipeline that you trigger in Oxygen from a script. This is made available by the new product called Oxygen Publishing Engine, which is the DITA publishing part from Oxygen. 

This webinar will dive into all of these capabilities so you can better customize the PDF output of your DITA project by addressing topics such as: 

• Customizing tables
• Customizing preserved elements (such as code blocks)
• Content marking and flagging
• Publishing a single topic
• Properly debugging the CSS

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The latest Oxygen Content Fusion features empower technical authors to have the ability to restrict task access only to specific collaborators and to track documents revisions. Also, the Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) are involved earlier in the content-related workflows. They can now be proactive and provide content drafts in a structured format or fill in templates designed by technical authors.

For technical authors, sharing XML content is now easier, from complex DITA projects with keys and profiling to DocBook or any other XML vocabulary.

In this webinar, you will learn how you can use Oxygen Content Fusion to:

• Share or reassign ownership of tasks
• Assign tasks only to specific collaborators
• Share complex DITA files that contain key definitions and profiled content
• Share interlinked files in any XML format
• Share templates with SMEs that will be filled in with technical data
• Receive content drafts from SMEs in a structured format
• Track the documents revisions

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Web Author comes with out-of-the-box solutions for authoring, but its main strength comes from the vast amount of customization possibilities, providing you with various solutions to address your needs. This webinar aims to inspire you with some of the most exciting ways to improve the authoring experience. You will learn various ways Web Author can be customized and about new framework customizations.

Some of the subjects include:

• Validation for Markdown documents
• Text-to-markup corrections
• How to easily navigate through large documents with the Outline view
• In-place actions
• Diff as a service

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This webinar focuses on introductory concepts of working with DITA documents in Oxygen XML Editor, covering everything from creating DITA maps and topics from scratch to basic publishing using out-of-the-box scenarios. You will also learn how to edit maps and topics, create references, insert media objects, tables, and other elements, as well as how to benefit from intelligent features such as validation and completeness check for DITA maps.

Covered topics:

• The DITA UI perspective
• Creating and editing maps and topics
• Using the DITA Maps Manager
• Validate and Check for Completeness
• Basic publishing using predefined scenarios

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Markdown is a lightweight, plain text markup language and many subject matter experts (such as developers, or engineers) prefer to use it. In this webinar, you will see how Oxygen supports them with features such as:

• Editing support
• Conversion to other formats, like HTML or DITA
• Using Schematron rules to validate and check for completeness a Markdown file
• MDITA, the authoring format of LwDITA that uses Markdown to structure information

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Oxygen provides a specialized JSON and JSON Schema editor with a variety of editing features, helper views, and useful tools. In this presentation, you will see an overview of the JSON and JSON Schema support, as well as the new additions, such as:

• An instance generator from a JSON Schema
• XSD to JSON schema converter
• Generate JSON Schema from JSON instance
• JSON Schema annotations
• Schematron validation for JSON

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Oxygen provides support for generating HTML5 and XHTML5 documents, and support for editing and validating XHTML5 files. Now Oxygen Editor introduces full HTML5 support, providing features such as:

• Specialized text-based and visual-based editing
• Syntax highlights based on the HTML5 specification
• Content completion based on the HTML5 schema
• Outline view that displays the document structure
• Validation against the W3C validator, including batch validation
• Emmet plugin for high-speed coding and editing

Join us to discover the HTML support in Oxygen!

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A variety of add-ons are available that can be easily installed to enhance the functionality of Oxygen XML Editor. This webinar aims to take a deeper look at some of the most popular add-ons that are available. You will see how easy it is to install them, the types benefits they provide, and some ideas for how they can be integrated into your particular authoring workflow. Some of the add-ons that will be featured include:

• The Git Client add-on that contributes a Git client directly in the Oxygen interface.
• The Batch Converter add-on that can be used to convert multiple files from one type to another.
• The DITA Outgoing References add-on that contributes a side view where you can see all the outgoing references for the current topic.

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Version 22.0 of the Oxygen XML suite of products was released recently and it features the most robust list of additions and improvements in recent years. This webinar will provide a detailed look at some of the most requested and significant features that were added in version 22.0. The primary areas of focus will be:

• New features and improvements for DITA authors.
• New possibilities for DITA Publishing, particular for CSS-based PDF output.
• The benefits of the newly added support for the DITA-OT Project configuration file.
• The most significant improvements added in Web Author and Content Fusion.
• A glimpse of various updates for JSON, HTML, and Markdown users.

Implementing DITA with a small team of technical writers does not have to be expensive or difficult to set up. We'll go through the steps of implementing a DITA solution using GitHub for storage and workflow and Oxygen XML Editor for editing. We’ll also look into how you can automate publishing and receive feedback from your end users. As a practical example we’ll look into how editing, collaboration and publishing on the Oxygen XML Blog works.

Technical documentation is rarely created by lone writers, so there is a constant need for collaboration. Collaboration can be with other writers or with people with other roles, usually referred to as subject matter experts, who may be part of your organization or external experts.

In order to be successful, the collaboration needs to be enabled by integrating it as part of the usual processes or workflows each user performs.

In this presentation, we will explore a few collaboration scenarios that show how to implement continuous improvement loops for published documentation, how to integrate documentation as part of the product development workflow, and how immediate collaboration can take place.